Adly is the first GM in Egyptian history, and the youngest ever from Africa.

Championships

<Youth> He placed third in the 2004 World Under-18 Championships.

<Junior> He was African U20 champion in 2001 where he obtained his first IM and GM norms. He won the World Junior Championship (2007) to become the first player from the continent of Africa to win a world junior championship.

<National> He won the Egyptian championship in 2007 and 2009.

<Regional and Continental> In 2005 he won the Arab Junior Championship and qualified once more for the knockout phase of the FIDE cycle. He was runner up in the African Continental Championship of 2015, and thereby qualified for the World Cup 2015.

averroes02: congratulations for ahmed adly from egypt, the first african champion in the history of this continent.I know this player when he play in olympics but I was not sure that he can win this championship and he did it, you are incredible and famous and genius my son. your father from algeria: AMMAR.

<I read in a German chess magazine that several years ago you were playing in a tournament in Nigeria, and that all the participants got malaria. Is it true that you survived because your next tournament was in Greece and you had access to a good hospital?

<Yes, unfortunately. It happened at the African Olympic games. I was very sick and almost died. I was 60 kgs before contracting malaria and 32 kgs after. So you can imagine how bad it was. This stopped me from playing good chess for two years. However, I was more upset to lose two of my team mates, who were less ill than I was. I thank God I am still alive.>>

pawnofdoom: Adly is going to play in the 2007 FIDE World Cup. I hope he does well. He was chosen as a player from Africa. Though he is rated pretty low, beign only 2500 compared to all the other 2600s and 2700s there, he should fare well.

waustad: Today he would have had to hold a draw against Maxim Rodstein a pawn down for Egypt to defeat Israel in the World Team Chess Championship. He was unable to hold so they split, 2-2. Egypt is tied for last with only one match point with USA and Russia. Nobody has 4 match points after only 2 rounds, so it is still pretty much up for grabs.

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